The Bayt.com Middle East and North Africa Salary Survey 2013

The Bayt.com Middle East and North Africa Salary Survey 2013

Survey Highlights:

  • •53% of professionals with jobs in the MENA prefer to have a ‘100% fixed pay structure’. Professionals with jobs in the GCC have a higher preference for fixed compensation structure whereas professionals with jobs in North Africa are divided over fixed pay and partially fixed pay structure.
  • • Performance based incentives and training and development courses are two most sought out benefits that professionals in the MENA would like to see in their package apart from their salary.
  • • The top3 additional benefits that professionals in the Middle East and North Africa claim to receive, apart from basic salary are, personal medical insurance, bonus and transport allowance.
  • • Six in10 job seekers in the Middle East and North Africa feel that the salaries paid by their company are ‘lower’ than other companies in the same industry.
  • •61% professionals in the Middle East and North Africa are of the opinion that salaries in their country of residence are increasing (35% say marginally,20% say moderately and6% say sharply).
  • • One in four professionals in the Middle East and North Africa claim they are still new to their current job as they have spent less than a year at it.

Data for the Bayt.com Middle East and North Africa Salary Survey (May2013) was collected online from April28 to May5,2013. Results are reported on a base of15,247 respondents. The study included professionals with jobs in UAE, jobs in KSA, jobs in Kuwait, jobs in Oman, jobs in Qatar, jobs in Bahrain, jobs in Lebanon, jobs in Syria, jobs in Jordan, jobs in Egypt, jobs in Morocco, jobs in Algeria, jobs in Tunisia and jobs in Pakistan.

Mohannad Aljawamis
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